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Jun. 1, 2013

The Elk Horn Saloon was among the Silver Reef locations where archeologist Robert Schuyler gathered artifacts in the 1980s.

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In the 1980s, historical archeologist Robert Schuyler came to Silver Reef and gathered thousands of artifacts to learn more about the history of the old mining town.

More than three decades after his first visit, Schuyler is now returning many of those artifacts to Southern Utah and delivering a more complete story of what life was like in Silver Reef, from boom to bust in the late 1800s. Hailing from the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he's an associate professor in the school's department of anthropology, Schuyler specializes in historical archeology, which combines digging ...